Ender is supposed to be a nickname for Andrew I believe? I read them yonks ago.

Anyway, did you ever notice Ender's Game could be a play on the term end game? I just noticed that myself today.

Did you also know that even though Ender's Game is the most successful and well-known book in the series, Card only wrote it because he thought he needed a sufficient backstory in order to write Speaker for the Dead? Ironic as Ender's Game is the one most people talk about and many people have only read that and none of its sequels. I think I do prefer the later books, though I thought they got a bit bogged down near the end.

The books get more and more thoughtful as they move up the line. Ender's Game is full of high adventure, although Ender's internal monologue as he works his way through all the wheels within wheels within wheels is a terrific counterpoint to the action. Did you know that there's a prequel about to come out? Card wrote it with Aaron Johnston. It's titled Earth Afire (The First Formic War) and is coming out in June.

Yeah, it does get a little out there. But the basic idea is working from the multiverse theory that's one possible result of string theory. Getting to use those multiverses--that's another kettle of monkeys . . . barrel of fish. Whatever.

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